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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07
MORE RrorING IN BELFAsr,-Larpe

MORE RIoTING IN BELFAsT.-.Large
crowds of people assembled in the Hankill
district, Belfast, Saturday, but there was no
disorder, owing to the presence of strong
force of police. At midnight, the people
having retired to their homes, the police
we're withdrawn. About noon yesterday
two persons were arrested on Servia street
for rioling. A mob tried to rescue the pris.
oners, and the police were compelled to
fire. A youth was wounded in the neck.
and was taken to a hospital The district
has since been quiet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07
Man Murdered.

GREENvILLE, Ohio, Feb. THE dead
body of Alfred Blizzard, farmer, SIS years
of age, was found in Greenville creek near
here yesterday morning. There were eigh-
teen fearful wounds in the head and face
and three of his fingers had been cut off,
evidently with Ratchet. 1t is supposed he
was either murdered for money or was kill
ed in house of i'll. repute he often visited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

Mr.. MANNING is as wrong in his financial
ideas as Mr.. Cleveland is in his civil service
policy. He would redeem the non-interest
bearing debt, the greenbacks, bnt would al
low the interest bearing debt to continue
until maturity. IN this respect, at least, his
ideas agree somewhat with those Of the men
now controlling the financial affairs OF Vir-
GINA. who are redeeming the low interest
bearing bonds of their State, the Ridd!eber-
gers, in preference to those which bear
high rate of interest. Ii Mr. Moaning shall
carry his present ideas into the management
of his proposed new bank, that bank will
hardly prove success. But it is physio-
logically, as well as sn anatomically
demonstrated fact that no mans brain is the
same after, as before stroke of paralysis.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth
for pain. will always give relief at once. 1t
will positively cure rheumatism if used as
per directions. 25 cts
Good advice Ifyou have friend with
cough or cold tell him to try DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07
Nomination.

WASHINGTON, Feb. THE President to-
day sentthe nomination to the Senate of E. c
More, of Missouri, to be Consul General at
the City of Mexico. Thomas T. Tuns.all. of
Alabama, having declined the appointment
OF Consul at Ascuncion, his nomination is
Withdrawn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07
Horrible Accident.

LEBANON, Pa, Feb. 7.-Yesterday morn
ing, near Lebanon Valley furnace, an iron
tank on truck filled with red-hot cinders
collidcd with another car, and the hot metal
was thrown over the bodies of Peter Red
dinger, aged 40, and Henry Kurtz, aged 3S
Reddinger died soon after the accident and
Kuriz died this morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

No MATTER what the President may do
hereafter, it is now almost too late for him
to regain the love and esteem of the men
who nominated and elected him; but be
would restore himself to the respect of many
of them if he would veto the disability and
the arrears of pensions bills, as those bills
will be the means of fraudulently extracting
from the public treasury hundreds Of mil
lions of the peoples money.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07
ARREST OF AN AcrREss.-Miss Louise

ARREST OF AN ACTREss.-Miss Louise
Pomeroy Elliot who has been playing the
past week in Richmond, was arrested Saturday
evening npon charge of assaultiug Mr. Ford,
member of her company. Ford claims that in
the wild scene in Lady Audleys Secret Miss
Pomeroy pushed him down more vigorously than
the plot contempstes 1t is generally believed,
however, that the warrant was sworn out only to
prevent Miss Pomeroy from leaving the city.
The lady left Yesterday afternoon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07
Conscience.

WASHINGTON Feb. An unknown
gentleman called at the Treasury Depart
ment this morning handed messenger
note addressed to the Secretary and then
disappeared. The letter when opened was
found to contain IS note with statement
that it was for articles received from Gov
eminent under misapprehension."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07
'iii9 ufPi ot'ii"Vo - i,OOoiNOV'
HOUSE.

Under the call of States numerous
bills, ST., vera introduced and referred.
Among them one to increase the
naval establishment. and to protect
the harbors of New York and San
Francisco, and approprating 81 100000 for
the construction of two steel rams after the
model of the marine ram recommended by
Rear Admiral Ammen 10 have speed of
OF least Is knots an hour also for the
erection Of national memorial bridge
across the Potomac river from Washington
to Arlington also to credit and pay to the
States all oneys collected as q tax on raw
cotton.
Mr.. Reed, of Maine, for Mr.. Dingley, Of
fored a bill to protect the fisheries of the
United States. The bill provides that any
vessel of foreign nationality or ownership
within the meaning OF the term vessel" as
defined in section s. Revised Statutes found
engaged in taking fish OF any kind within
three marine miles of any of the marine
coasts, bays, creeks or harbors OF the United
States, or within lake or river waters Of the
United States, small be liable to seizure and
forfeiture and TO proceedings to en-
force said forfeiture. And any per-
son employed in or with such vessel,
found taking fish of any kind ID such waters
shall be liable to fine Of $50 FOR every such
offence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

COO REWARD-Lost between Saturday night
DSU and this morning an old LEATHER
POCKET BOOK. containing 3 $50 bills; 5 $40
bills and So bill. The above reward win be
paid for the return of the pocket book and money
to j. E MCKINNEY
febi st 43 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

NEW YORK, Feb Cotton easy upands
91k; Orleans 11-16; futures steady. Flour
quiet and heavy. Wheat better Corn elsv.
Pork steady at $14. Lard dull at Sc 80.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

CHICAGO February I'll a. m Wheat opened
heavy at 834. for sfay delivery, sold of to 831s,
but rallied to s3la owing to the reports that the
Southwestern Wheat fields were bare Of snow.
May Corn II. May Oats 301s. May Pork
S13 4715 May Lard S. so.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

Pile tumors, rupture and fstul;e. radical
ly cured by improved methods Book, 10
cents in stamps. Worlds Dispensary Med
cal Association, Buffalo, n. Y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

The receipts of Flour are liberal and the mar
kets are quiet, but without change. Tho offer
ings of Wheat for some days past have been small
and mostly of inferior grades while this class of
Wheats are sluggish and dull, both millcrs and
buyers readily take all sound prime lots at full
figures; futures huctuate within narrow limits,
with nothing reported to encourage a speculative
feeling. Corn is active. Rye and Oats are steady.
Produce is easy and lower.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07

BALTIMORE, Feb. Cotton dull; middling
94. Flour nominally steady aud quiet Howard
street and Western super 50 50a3 90; do extra
So 15a3 80; do family 81 15a rs City Mills
super 81 50a3 GO; do extra So 15a3 90 do Rio
brands "a 62a4 81 Patapsco family So 30; do
superlative patent So 60 Wheat-Southern low
er and quiet; Western about steady and quiet
Southern red 92a94: do amber 94a96; No 2
Western winter red spot 81 bid Feb 902.a91
March 9l1hs91' %; May 94a94ls. Corn-southern
white 47a49; do yellow 47a4S; Western mixed
spot AZ 1aa47aa; Feb 47a471a March 47a474,
May Z, 48 bid. Oats steady and quiet; Southern
34a39; Western white 37a39 mixed 34a36
Pennsylvania 34a39. Rye firm at 56l5S. Hay
steady and quiet prime to choice Western $11a
10 Provisions firm, with fair inquiry. Mess
Pork S13 30. Bulk meats-shoulders and clear
rib sides packed Tara. Bacon-shoulders 6
clear rib sides Ga; hams 11a12b Lard-refned
IA. Butter quiet; Western packed 16a23
creamery 25a33 Eggs lover ann quiet at pa
"a. Coffee easier: Rio cargoes ordinary to tair
14Aa15. Sugar quiet aud steady 4 soft 5 11.1e
Whiskey quiet at 81 23a1 81.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-07
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
TO-day's Proceedings OF Congress.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Z, 1887.

The credentials Of Francis b. Sockbridge
as Senator from Michigan, for the full term
commencing March 4, 1887, were presented
by the presiding officer and referred TO
the committee on privileges and elections
Several memorials were introduced and
referred.
The Senate being about 10 take up House
bills on the calendar,
Mr. Hawley moved 10 proceed to the con-
sideration CT the bill 10 encourage the man.
ufactnre of steel for modern army ordnance,
armor and other army purposes, and TO pro-
vide heavy ordnance, adapted to modern
army warfare
The motion was agreed to and tho bill
was taken up for action.
Several amendments reported by the
Committee on Coast Defenses were agreed
TO and after an explanation oil some points
of details the bill Was passed without divi-
sion
The Senate then tnok up and passed the
bill TO encourage the manufacture of steel
for modern naval ordnance, armor, shafting
and other naval purposes, and to provide
heavy ordnance adapted to modern naval
warfare This bill is like the other in all
important particulars except that the gun
factory is to be at the Washington navy
yard, and that the fourth section of the
other is omitted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21
TOad-Lore.

Toads have much in common with
frogs, but they are Matched from spawn
that is deposited in long strings, while
frog-spawn is in masses, and they have
no teeth. They are also marked by
not poisonous juice. They have tongues
whose motions, nearly as quick as
lightning, the eye cannot follow, and
which sweep in the insects they catch
with such speed that the victims ''seem
to melt into thin air" rather than to be
caught and swallowed. They a climb
plastered and whitewashed walls or
flights of steps, and even into flower
pots whose outward sloping sides would
seem to forbid such an achievement.
They will eat nothing that is not in
motion except their own skins, which,
when they are cast of, they roll up and
swallow. The muscles of their thighs
and legs strikingly resemble those of
man. They can not breathe when their
mouth is held open. The old necrom-
ancers used them freely and in various
ways in their magic. In some parts of
England the application of a toad is
supposed to stop bleeding, and dried
specimens are wor as charms against
rheumatism. The members of a Devon
shire family had a reputation for curing
kings evil" by means of toads. Some
of the German peasants are said to have
a way of crucifylng toads, which must
be caught for the purpose Easter-Sun-
day morning before sunrise; then bury
ing them in an ant-hill. and leaving
them there till Whitsunday. when their
clean and white bones, worn in Il little
bag around the neck, will always make
the possessor win in games of chance.
The Thibetans, according to Able Hue,
tell of a toad that dwells amid the
mists of n lofty mountain-range, and.
unless he is propiIiated, filings ice and
avalanches down upon those who pass
in the valleys below.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21
An Appropriate Text.

John Quincy Adams and John Han
cock, ''tne signer," married two sisters,
the daughters of a noted methodist di-
vine in Connecticut. John Quincy was
a favorite with the old people, and
Mary's choice was approved by them.
So, when the banns were published the
parent said: ''Mary, if you will furnish
the text / will preach you a wedding SER
mon." She was equal to the task and
gave the text: '.Mary hath chosen the
good part, which shall not be taken
from her." Needless to say that justice
was done to the occasion aud the text.
Not SO with Margaret, who in the mean
while was receiving the attentions of
her John in a very inexpensive way. as
far az her parents were concerned, for
1t is said that ''he never crossed his legs
under their festive board" So when
the banns were published she said to
her father: Father, you preached a
wedding sermon for Mary; cannot you
preach one for me?" He at first de-
INJURED, but at last consented and
called for the text, when Margaret.
who was equal to the occasion, said:
"And John came, neither eating nor
drinking, and yet We say he hath .
devil."-N. 7. Graphic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21

again, with the exception of the deep
grooming of the still struggling man,
and his slowly diminishing calls for
help, he felt q drop of the coolest water
upon his heated forehead; then another
rolled down. One by one they came,
thicker and faster, until his head was
numb with their GOODNESS. And now,
with q rush enveloping his whole body,
a beautiful waterfall gushed foaming
and sparkling. Over the precipice it
dashed, and hid entirely within It's
vapory folds the body of the man who
now hung dead and cold from the
clinched rocks; and the crystal spring,
born far away among the flint rocks and
baptized with Il copiOus charge of
silica. now rejoiced in unalloyed liber-
~. Those who viewed its wondrous
beauty from below, and felt its cool
breath as it dashed to- the earth in q
cloud of pearly spray, and went laugh
ing through the green meadows, little
dreamed of the dread secret it held in
its embrace.
The old cave had long been tenant
less. Janeband her family still lived
in. Meadowville. The children were
married and settled down, and the be-
loved mother was well taken care of.
Johns mother had long lain in her
grave, and the villagers had ceased to
wonder what had become of her way
ward son.
The mountains back of Meadowville
were said to be rich in minerals. A
party of biologists with their hammers
and chisels, were enthusiastically search
ing for specimens. The beautiful spring
was running dry, and q queer-shaped
rock divided its slender stream into
several tiny rllls. Much curiosity was
evinced regarding the queer shape of
the stone. After much wondering and
hard climbing. the spot was reached,
and the hard black body of n human
being discovered suspended from the
elbows.
The rock, after much labor, was cut
away, and. the body removed intact
from its long resting-place.
When the biologists drove through
the village with their curious burden a
crowd of eager people followed the
wagon until it halted at the end of the
principal street. Janet, with her little
granddaughter Madge, came out of a
door. ''See thereP" lisped the little
one. Janet took one long look at the
contents of the wagon. and then turned
away with a great wonder in her heart.
In the Museum at - now rests the
body of the petrified hermit.-Ione L
Jones, IN 1id-B
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21
Thy Curse Shalt Be to Think.

I dare thee to forget me go wander where
Thy hand upon the vessels helm or on the
saber's hIlt;
Awayl th0u'rt freei DER land and sea go rush
TO dangers brink
But, oh, thou can'st not fly from thoughti thy
curse shall be-to thinkl
Remember mel remember all my ~long-endur-
Tha' Iink'a Itself to peridy; the yulture and
he doVel
Remember in thy utmost need l never once
But chung TO thee conhdingly; thy curse shall
be-to think?
Then gol that thought would render thee O
bastard In the fight,
That thought, when thou art tcmpest-test,
will Nil thee with affrightl
IN some vile dungeon may'st thou lie, and
counting each cJd link
That binds thee TO captivity, thy curse shall
be-to thinkl
Go! seek the merry banquet hall, where
younger mnidens bloom,
The thought of ma shall make thee there en-,
dure a deeper gloom;
That thought shalt turn the festive cup &c
poison while you drink,
And while false smiles are on thy tcheek, thy
curse shall be-to thinkl
Forget me! false one, hope Il noti when min
StrelS touch the string
The memory of other days will gall thee while
they sing;
The mir 1 use,I To love will make thy coward
conscience shrink
Aye, ey'ry note will have its sting, thy curse
will be-to thinkl
Forget mel no, that shall not bel III haunt
thee in thy sleep,
In dreams thou'Il cling to Shiny rocks that
Overhnng the deep;
ThOult Shrek for add my feeble arm shall
hurl thee from the brink,
And when thou wak'sL in wild dismay, thy
curse shall be-tO think
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21
sIeeplessness

The sufferers from this most exasper-
sating complaint, says a writer In the
Brooklyn Eagle, are chiefly men who
live exclusively in the top OF their heads
men who, to crafty their own or
their families ambition for wealth and
social success, can find no time for exer-
else and relief from 'the daily round,
common task" When night comes
they are too fatigued to enjoy them
selves in the parlor or the billiard
room. They cannot read, and it is an
impossibility to stop figuring and plan
ming long enough to woo the passive
condition which is the preliminary and
indispensable step toward a good
nights sleep. So the crank turns and
the grist grinds from morning till
night, from night till morning. and the
result is wasted tissue and impoverished
vitality.
"After all, a mans first duty is to his
family" the victim tells himself. 81
shall have time enough to rest when !
have made a few thousands"
And so the girls are sent abroad to be
educated, and the boys go to college
like princes of the blood" and mother
swings between Germany, Paris, New
York, and Tophet, trying to be happy
in her Worth dresses and social sue
cesses, but probably too anxious about
husband and too unsettled as to her
brood to enjoy much of anything.
II should be well enough if 1 could
only sleep" her husband writes her,
''but it is the same old story, and some
times / am afraid it will wear me out"
Provided this wife cares truly for her
husband, such a paragraph, received
perhaps in a foreign land, must be the
reverse of exhilarating. But she can do
him no good when she is by his side.
1t only amounts to two being Kept
awake instead of one, a tragic fact,
which is harder to bear than all. In
the past the very sound of her quiet
breathing at night has proved an irri-
tant of the worst kind. 1t is no use to
say, LET everything 90 and try to
rest" That has been tried too often.
Such counsel is sure to result in a re-
proach though probably quite unlnten-
tional. Suppose / were to let things
go at this crisis"-it is always 'this
crisis in such cases-"what would be-
come of you and the girls and the boys,
and how could l afford to buy the prop
erty adjoining ours, and which we must
have to make ours truly valuable?"
Neither the logic of common sense nor
the pleadings of love a have any
effect upon a man S far gone as this.
He must be left Il his idols and the aw-
full and inevitable day of physical reek-
oning, which is as certain as that SUM-
set must follow sunrise.
when a man begins to lie awake
nights he had better begin to stir about
days." said Abraham Lincoln to a men,
Der of his cabinet who was complaining
of insomnia. Walk, old fellow, walk,
till old Shanks won't carry you another
STEP" he added, land don't take the
Civil War out airing with you, either"
Through the avenue of insomnia a
man is pretty sure to travel to one
of three houses" Charles Lamb once
told a friend-'to the mad-house, the
poor-house or the house of refuge. If
he passes these he will bring up in a
hospital, public or private; and this
to my mind, is almost as bad as
the Others"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21
George Gould.

George Gould is the latest instance
of his fathers foresight. His first ex-
p~erience in business convinced every
one else that he was not cut out. But
Jay Gould has picked him out as his
manager. Young Gould has now
settled down to make himself stoop-
s%houldered signing checks and indors-
ing stocks and bonds. He has been
made vice-president of a number OF
corporations by his father to relieve the
latter of that task. When he thought
of taking a bride the first marked
change came over him. Even his father
did not know what developed the young
mans business capacity Sc suddenly.
Cupid had winged him, and he was i'm
pressed with the gravity OF life. He was
married in a business suit, and his
wedding trip was in a common coach
from Irvington to New York. The
young man is daily at his fathers Of
flee. He takes his coat off and works
in his shirt sleeves, like a clerk who has
plenty to do and wants to be unre-
strained in doing it. He reaches his
Office in the Western Union building by
9 or $50, and often stays right up to 6
o'clock. He pores over the accounts of
railroads to sec that they are right be-
fore payments are made, and looks
after details that put him in the way
of knowing exactly what everybody
connected with the property is doing.
Now and then, on a bright afternoon,
he manages to get away from business
to take his wife for u drive. His spare
tina is passed entirely in her society.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21
Ham and Eggs by Telegraph.

There is one hotel in New York at
whose Office one hears a wide departure
from the old and UNMARRIED cry of
Front" ''Take this TO 247," or 'fSee
what 80 wants" At this hotel the
clerk hears the tick of a muffled bell
behind him. turns from the counter,
chances at a dial about the size OF an
ordinary nickel clock and Immediately
behaves as if he could see through all
the walls between him and the guests
rooms and could reach the mind of
any guest in the bargain. Click, goes
the bell.
james take up a Manhattan cocktail
to A." says the clerk. Click, goes the
bell. BOY" saws the clerk, take up
two soft-boiled eggs to MIR. Tomkins,"
or Johnny, run up and say to 1868 that
it is ten minutes after 10 O'Clock"
ANY visitor who spends an hour near
the clerks desk will be amazed at the
variety of orders that will be given to
the hall boys without the clerks hear
ing a word from any Dor by tele-
phone, telegraph, speaking tube, or any
other means.
The explanation is at once simple
and peculiar. Some genius has invent
ed a device hat he calls by a Greek
name, and which is operated auto
matically by an electric battery exactly
as the old-fashioned hotel annunciators
are. In each room in the hotel is a
dial with movable arrow, like a clock
hand. On the dial are printed the
names of everything a guest would be
at all likely to want-all the drinks that
ever were heard of, paper, envelopes,
telegraph blanks, ''help," a doctor,
police chambermaid, messenger boy,
eggs, toast, milk, soup, oysters, break
fast, dinner, team fact, every eatable
in common demand-a city directory,
the daily papers, playing cards, cigars,
cigarettes, chewing tobacco, q barber
in short, everything in a list of 100 or
$50 necessaries. The guest pulls the
arrow to the name of whatever he wants
and by pressing a button registers his
demand on the dial behind the clerks
desk. The only purpose it serves is to
ave time in the execution of orders
Cor. Philadelphia Times.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-01-21
NUMBER 81

Insomnia has been cured by bandag-
ing one of the legs at the knee with lay
ers of we calico and covering these
with a sheet OF waterproof cloth. The
vessels of the leg were dilated and the
amoun of blood in the head diminish
ed, and sleep followed.
To keep insects out of birdcages tie
up a little sulphur in a bag, and sus-
pend it in the cage. Red ants will new
err be found in closet or drawer if a
small bag of sulphur be kept there.
Small umbrellas are effective for
shades on lamps and gas chandeliers.
Those of Japanese paper are covered
with orange, pink or crimson roses
made out of tissue paper, and fastened
as a shield at one side of the globe. A
large bow of ribbon of the same color
fastens the handle.